A roundup of news about whaling by Iceland and Norway, Tokitae's health, and IMMP's efforts in Washington DC for whales and dolphins.
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Fewer whales and even fewer people wanting to buy whale meat are taking a toll on the world's remaining commercial whaling nations -- Japan, Norway and Iceland. COVID and public aversion to whaling are also ruining things for the whale killers. Read all about it.
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Hvaldimir, the beluga whale suspected of being a Russian spy, is facing his most dangerous mission yet: trying to survive in the wild.
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In his recent story, Joe Roman of the University of Vermont notes that “one of the most important global conservation events of the past year was something that didn’t happen.”
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The gray whales that migrate today along the coast of North America are one of the bright spots for whales that were severely depleted during the heyday of commercial whaling. The species has the unfortunate distinction of having been repeatedly reduced before protection efforts were put in place by the League of Nations and nations that host the migrations. And still today, every summer, they are hunted in Russia.
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Norway has surpassed Japan and Iceland in its whale hunting quotas (which do not include dolphins), and now officially kills more whales than any country in the world. Iceland actually temporarily stopped whaling this summer due to a lack of market for whale meat and other factors, while Japan has cut back its whaling effort to focus on whaling only within their 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone.
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The best way to combat issues of animal cruelty, regardless of the species, is to go vegan.
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Japan's proposal to return to commercial whaling has been soundly defeated.
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Norway claims that there are large enough populations of whales to sustain commercial hunts. So why are the quotas not being filled?
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